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The Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC) has two four-year PhD positions available for excellent candidates with an excellent research proposal, starting September 2011.

The ACLC focuses on the description and explanation of variation in language and language use. A key feature of the ACLC approach is that linguistic phenomena are studied from the widest possible variety of perspectives, both descriptive and theoretical, in order to ensure that the findings are not accidental, but are truly representative of the basic parameters that govern the organization of natural languages. The ACLC includes both functional and formal approaches to language description and encourages dialogue between these approaches. Studies cover all aspects of speech and languages: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Language typology, including that of creole and signed languages, plays an important part in the ACLC programme. Language variation in terms of time, space and context is another specialisation. The study of variation in the different types of language user - from the child learning her first language to the adult second language learner including also different types of language pathology - is also a clear focus.

The PhD proposal should fit within the ACLC research programme The Language Blueprint, preferably also witin the research focus area Learnability. Proposals futhermore focusing on foreign languages taught at the University of Amsterdam are specifically invited. Your research proposal should follow the guidelines available at the ACLC website, URL below, under Vacancies.

Requirements MA in linguistics (or equivalent), obtained no longer than five years ago.

The PhD student will be appointed for a period of 4 years (80%) or 3.3 years (full time) at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam under the terms of employment currently valid for the Faculty. A contract will be given in the first instance for one year, with an extension for the following years on the basis of an evaluation of, amongst other things, a written piece of work. The salary (on a full time base) will be EUR 2042 during the first year (gross per month) and will reach EUR 2612 during the fourth year, in accordance with the CAO for Dutch universities.